Oak Tree Farmhouse, Including Outbuilding Adjoining To West

The property comprises a farmhouse with an adjoining outbuilding, dating from the mid-17th century, with a possible earlier core. Later improvements and an extension were added in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The main farmhouse is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with stone rubble or cob stacks topped with 20th-century brick, and a concrete tile roof installed in 1983 (replacing a former thatched roof); the outbuildings have slate roofs. The farmhouse originally had a 3-room-and-through-passage plan with an inner room at the right (east) end. A late 17th- to early 18th-century stair block and dairy project to the rear of the hall. Axial and end stacks are present, with the stack of the inner room projecting outwards. The front elevation has a regular, though not symmetrical, 4-window arrangement of modern iron-framed casement windows with glazing bars. Large stone buttresses prop the internal crosswalls between the windows. The central passage doorway now has a plank door and a monopitch, slate-roofed porch supported on plain timber posts. The rear wall is exposed cob and lacks windows. A late 17th- to early 18th-century oak 3-light casement window on the rear elevation features flat-faced mullions with shallow internal ogee mouldings, internal iron bars, and rectangular panes of leaded glass. The interior retains 17th and 18th century features, although earlier elements may be hidden. Internal cob crosswalls extend to full height. The service room has a 17th-century crossbeam with soffit-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, and a large, blocked kitchen fireplace with a side oven and a blocked doorway leading to a rear smoking chamber, although the lintel to the fireplace is not exposed. The hall also has a 17th-century soffit-chamfered crossbeam with run-out stops, and a granite fireplace whose lintel is similarly concealed. An 18th-century cupboard with fielded panel doors is located at the upper end of the hall, alongside a cream oven alcove. Early 18th-century 3-fielded panel doors lead to the inner room and stair block. The service room lacks exposed beams and has a blocked fireplace. The staircase was replaced around 1930. First floor doors are also 18th-century fielded panel doors, including one to a chamber above the dairy. A late 17th- to early 18th-century fireplace with a soffit-chamfered mantel shelf is present in the chamber above the inner room. The roof was completely renewed in 1983. Adjoining the main house to the left is an agricultural store, originally a 17th-century cottage with an end stack that is now a party wall with an 18th-century byre. It is two storeys high and has a 19th-century casement window with glazing bars and a door on the right side. The interior of the store retains an original soffit-chamfered crossbeam with scroll-nick stops, and a rubble fireplace with a plain oak lintel. The roof features 18th-century A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars and X-apexes.